Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sick Child. Bell made a persuasive case for Bokaro-but the plan remains a difficult pill for Capitol Hill to swallow. Of India's three existing government steel mills, one was built by Great Britain, one by the Soviet Union, and one by West Germany. At all three, construction costs far outran estimates. At the Soviet mill, production costs have been higher than in the private plants. And the West German mill was, until recently, so plagued by mechanical difficulties and labor troubles that it was dubbed "the sick child" of Indian industry. It was with this record...
...surprisingly, Dad is not at all well. To organize his pill-popping: an $8.95 pillbox with generous compartments for every day in the week so that the poor man will know when...
...biggest business end (8.6 inches around) that baseball rules will allow. Wagner wears a golf glove on his left hand,* grips the bat in unorthodox fashion-with his hands split two inches apart, à la Ty Cobb. "When my bat meets the ball," he says, "that old pill really takes off." Except in Chavez Ravine. For some mysterious reason, Slugger Wagner has yet to hit a homer in his own home park...
...another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes and rusting "DANGER" signs...
...Rebellion. Pill hoarders are not necessarily mental patients or even borderline cases. "The real point," says Psychiatrist Goldman, "is not the hoarding but the refusal to take the pills. Some patients stop taking medicine as soon as they feel better. Others refuse it as an act of rebellion against the authority of doctors, nurses or family. Still others are afraid of being tagged as sickly or weaklings. And on the borderline are the people who are afraid of being poisoned...